the skyrim thread

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

can someone please explain this comic to me?

http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/

[mrbasehart]

can someone please explain this comic to me?

http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/

It's CAD.  It's never funny. 

There you go. 

[shodan]

can someone please explain this comic to me?

http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/

its one of the scripted dialogue options for the guards in the Jarls. it goes ' i used to be an adventurer like you... but then i took an arrow to the knee" because of the massive damage and various wounds that occur while playing Skyrim, and the phrase's own just general humor, this phrase has become a HUGE internet meme. look on a few popular youtube videos, you'll see them there. also i just made the same joke on the photo caption thread

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

Ahh where would I be without rifftrax, how would I ever get my daily amount of snark

So knee damage is a pretty serious thing in the game?

[shodan]

no. thats why the fact that this guy is complaining is ridiculous
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-took-an-arrow-in-the-knee

[JimJ]

[mrbasehart]

You know, for as much as a tired meme as that's become, I don't think I ever remember hearing that story in the game.   

[JimJ]

You know, for as much as a tired meme as that's become, I don't think I ever remember hearing that story in the game.   

Seems like I hear it all the damn time.  The thing that makes it hilarious to me is how ALL of the guards say it.  Like getting an arrow in the knee automatically means guard duty for the rest of your life in the Skyrim universe.  Also, how the hell are people with debilitating knee injuries even qualified for guard duty?  Seems irresponsible, considering they'd be the first line of defense against invasions and dragon attacks.

[skenderberg]

You know, for as much as a tired meme as that's become, I don't think I ever remember hearing that story in the game.  

It's not a story; just an oft-repeated bit of NPC banter.  Getting within three feet of a guard has at least a one in four chance of netting you that line.  Assuming you haven't been actively avoiding the city guards, you've probably heard it dozens of times and just tuned it out as background noise.

[shodan]

walked into the circle, it got extremely foggy, and i started to hear weird animal noises nearby.

[deevolve]

I keep wanting just one guy to walk up to me and say, "Aren't you the hero of Kvatch?"

[Variety of Cells]

Anyone here mess around with the .ini files?  There are a bunch of preferences you can boost past the ultra settings if your computer can handle it, which make your draw distances farther, or lets trees accept shadows, stuff like that.  These aren't patches or mods, they are just settings that are harder to get to.  This is a good guide on what does what.  These tweaks are safe and won't mess with your system too much.

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1387

And there are some settings you can add, like changing the uGridsToLoad, that increases how much is being loaded at a time which drastically reduces pop in, but you take a pretty big hit in the frame rate if you boost it too high, especially if your cpu isn't so hot.   I have an i5 overclocked to 3.6 ghz, my uGridsToLoad is bumped up one level to 7, and i get an average of 40-45 fps.  60 in dungeons.  Which is acceptable for me because this really did take down the amount of pop in I was getting with the normal maxed out settings.    Now it's much less noticeable when it does happen.  Here is a guide on how to change the setting, but read the whole first post before you mess around with it.  If you don't you will most likely get a lot of crashes to the desktop, and reverting back to standard settings without being careful can corrupt your saves.  You have been warned.

http://forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/topic/1274926-ugridstoload-skyrimini-comparisons-and-explanation-default-57911/

Let me know if anyone is interested in posting their System.ini and systempref.ini file settings to compare.  I got a little obsessed with seeing how far I could go last night, but now I have it at a comfortable place... unless I get that new processor for Christmas that I asked for.  Then it's back to pushing it as far as I can.

[Scribblesense]

can someone please explain this comic to me?

http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/

It's CAD.  It's never funny. 

There you go. 

"Support Group for Former Adventurers Suffering From Arrow-Related Knee Injuries"

It took him four poorly-drawn panels to say THAT? That's not a joke, that's some sort of thesaurus diarrhea train wreck. What's his creative process? I'd imagine it involves kidnapped hitchhikers and slowly carving random wordplay into innocent flesh. The joke that makes the pain last longest gets immortalized on the internet. Twelve soul-searching yuppies died to bring you this comic, but don't worry, by the end they all deserved it. It was a close call between the "winner" here and a blank box that read: "Remember that video game thing that's popular, relevant, and mildly funny? I decided to crap all over it. God is dead and your childhood joy is what killed Him."

If Tim Buckley was a toddler, I'd be okay with him being proud, smug, and defensive about the mediocre work he produced. I might want to hang it on my fridge because d'awwww, the widdle guy tried so hard and now he's all tuckered out! instead of using him to power my Comedy Starship, which is fueled by RAGE and HATE. Keep up the crap Buckley! I'm shooting for the Chuckle Hut at the End of the Universe.

[Scribblesense]

Hmm, wow, did I really rant that long about CAD? Must have eaten something rotten to put me in a rotten mood.

Anyhow, this won't be a rant, I promise, but: I don't know why I don't like Skyrim.

The game looks amazing, incredible, stupendous, a real achievement, and I can say that without hyperbole or snark. I want to like it, I want to have fun with it, I just can't bring myself to play it for any extended period of time. I like dragons, and magic, and vikings using magic to kill dragons, and fun stuff like that. I thoroughly enjoyed the gameplay in Fallout 3, which is basically the same (except for the levelling system). Why don't I like Skyrim?

I'm hesitant to criticize the game because I doubt there's anything wrong with it, just something wrong about me, heh.

I guess one reason I don't like Skyrim is because I just don't feel invested in it. I don't care what happens to my character, I don't know enough about the Empire or the Stormcloaks to care why they're fighting over patches of dirt, and I don't really know what my purpose in the world is. It just feels like "Here, go and be awesome" and there's no frame of reference for what awesome is here.

I guess my problem is I need someone to tell me how to be awesome? Or that I'm just not awesome to begin with? Heh. The game just doesn't motivate me.

Am I the only one? Has anyone else felt anything remotely like what I've described?

[spaceforarent]

Hmm, wow, did I really rant that long about CAD? Must have eaten something rotten to put me in a rotten mood.

Anyhow, this won't be a rant, I promise, but: I don't know why I don't like Skyrim.

The game looks amazing, incredible, stupendous, a real achievement, and I can say that without hyperbole or snark. I want to like it, I want to have fun with it, I just can't bring myself to play it for any extended period of time. I like dragons, and magic, and vikings using magic to kill dragons, and fun stuff like that. I thoroughly enjoyed the gameplay in Fallout 3, which is basically the same (except for the levelling system). Why don't I like Skyrim?

I'm hesitant to criticize the game because I doubt there's anything wrong with it, just something wrong about me, heh.

I guess one reason I don't like Skyrim is because I just don't feel invested in it. I don't care what happens to my character, I don't know enough about the Empire or the Stormcloaks to care why they're fighting over patches of dirt, and I don't really know what my purpose in the world is. It just feels like "Here, go and be awesome" and there's no frame of reference for what awesome is here.

I guess my problem is I need someone to tell me how to be awesome? Or that I'm just not awesome to begin with? Heh. The game just doesn't motivate me.

Am I the only one? Has anyone else felt anything remotely like what I've described?

Actually, I've got a similar feeling, but I still like the game. I honestly have no clue why I'm doing anything that I'm doing, or even what my main goal is supposed to be. I can't tell the difference between a "main quest" or a "side quest". Every time I'm told to kill someone or someone dies somehow (like the execution in Solitude) I fear that having them die will screw something up later.